The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core and has provoked an overnight exodus of developers that normally worked in an office setting to working from home. The magnitude of this shift and the factors that have accompanied this new unplanned work setting go beyond what the software engineering community has previously understood to be remote work. To find out how developers and their productivity were affected, we distributed two surveys (with a combined total of 3,634 responses that answered all required questions) -- weeks apart to understand the presence and prevalence of the benefits, challenges, and opportunities to improve this special circumstance of remote work. From our thematic qualitative analysis and statistical quantitative analysis, we find that there is a dichotomy of developer experiences influenced by many different factors (that for some are a benefit, while for others a challenge). For example, a benefit for some was being close to family members but for others having family members share their working space and interrupting their focus, was a challenge. Our surveys led to powerful narratives from respondents and revealed the scale at which these experiences exist to provide insights as to how the future of (pandemic) remote work can evolve.
翻译：COVID-19大流行使世界震撼到核心,并引发了通常在办公室环境中工作的开发者一夜之间外逃,从家里工作。这种转变的规模以及伴随这种新的计划外工作环境的各种因素超出了软件工程界以前所理解的远程工作的范围。为了查明开发者及其生产力如何受到影响,我们分发了两份调查(共3 634份答复,答复了所有必要的问题) -- -- 除了数周之外,还要了解好处、挑战和机会的存在和普遍程度,以改善这种远程工作的特殊情况。从我们的专题定性分析和统计定量分析来看,我们发现开发者的经验受到许多不同因素的影响(对一些人来说是一种好处,而对另一些人来说则是挑战 ) 。 例如,对于一些家庭成员来说,好处是接近家庭成员,但对有家庭成员共享工作空间和中断注意力的其他人来说,这是一个挑战。我们的调查导致答卷者进行了强有力的叙述,并揭示了这些经验的存在规模,以使人们了解(范围)远程工作的未来如何演变。
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